PROMOTING THE DEVELOPMENT OF A RESILIENT PERSONALITY IN A UNIVERSITY ENVIRONMENT THROUGH THE PRACTICE OF MINDFULNESS
The result's identifiers
Result code in IS VaVaI
<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F61988987%3A17450%2F19%3AA210205A" target="_blank" >RIV/61988987:17450/19:A210205A - isvavai.cz</a>
Result on the web
<a href="https://library.iated.org/view/LACKOVA2019PRO" target="_blank" >https://library.iated.org/view/LACKOVA2019PRO</a>
DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.21125/edulearn.2019.0170" target="_blank" >10.21125/edulearn.2019.0170</a>
Alternative languages
Result language
angličtina
Original language name
PROMOTING THE DEVELOPMENT OF A RESILIENT PERSONALITY IN A UNIVERSITY ENVIRONMENT THROUGH THE PRACTICE OF MINDFULNESS
Original language description
The article describes the results of a longitudinal study on the effects of the regular practice of mindfulness on coping with stressful situations of university students, whom later are employees in various companies and institutions. The main focus of the study was to analyse their strategies for managing difficult situations and the possibility to maintain a state of harmony by the participants after the practice of mindfulness. From 2002 to 2018, 97 participants (53 men and 44 women) were monitored for the study. They were students at Czech universities who first passed an 8-week course of mindfulness and who practiced mindful meditation at least once a day and for a period of 20 minutes. We recorded their statements four times a year for a period of 17 years. In total, there were 6,596 interviews. The first objective was to determine how their behaviour, experience and thinking changed over time, particularly in difficult situations. At the beginning of the study, their reactions in emotionally charged situations were subjectively characterised by a lack of self-control, low self-confidence in terms of managing the problem, and perceiving conflicts as unsolvable catastrophic events. The second objective was to record how the participants perceived the effect of regular practice of mindfulness on experiencing difficult situations, and how the solution of such problematic behaviour changes as a result of meditation. The results indicate a significant change in the lives of the participants during the implementation of the study. In particular, participants reported greater focus on studied text and concentration on their studies or work, their response to stressful situations was calmer, without experiencing paralysing anxiety, and they followed daily work plans better, without the tendency to procrastination.
Czech name
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Czech description
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Classification
Type
D - Article in proceedings
CEP classification
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OECD FORD branch
50100 - Psychology and cognitive sciences
Result continuities
Project
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Continuities
I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace
Others
Publication year
2019
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
Data specific for result type
Article name in the collection
EDULEARN19 Proceedings
ISBN
978-84-09-12031-4
ISSN
2340-1117
e-ISSN
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Number of pages
7
Pages from-to
486-492
Publisher name
IATED Academy
Place of publication
Palma de Mallorca
Event location
Palma de Mallorca
Event date
Jul 1, 2019
Type of event by nationality
WRD - Celosvětová akce
UT code for WoS article
000551093100071